21316. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. Producers Dairy Co.    Plea of nolo
contendere.    Fine, $75.     (F. & D. no. 29511.     Sample no.  11352-A.)
This case was based on the interstate shipment of quantities of butter which 
had been guaranteed by the defendant company as complying with the Food 
and Drugs Act and which did not comply with the law since it contained less 
than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On July 1, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court an information against the Producers Dairy Co., a corporation, 
Springfield, Ill. It was alleged in the information that the defendant company 
had sold and delivered on or about June 6 and June 9, 1932, quantities of 
butter under a written guarantee that the article complied in all respects 
with the Food and Drugs Act, that the product, in the identical condition as 
when received, had been shipped in interstate commerce by the purchaser 
thereof on or about June 13, 1932, from Chicago, Ill., into the State of New 
York, and that it was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The information charged that the article was adulterated in that a product 
which contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted 
for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent by weight 
of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4,. 1923, which the article 
purported to be.
On July 12. 1933, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was entered 
on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $75.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.